Valve To Stop Policing Steam Content Altogether; Itch.io’s Leaf Corcoran Calls It Ridiculous

Valve To Stop Policing Steam Content Altogether; Itch.io’s Leaf Corcoran Calls It Ridiculous

6 years ago
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Valve recently got into a controversy after banning certain games in the adult visual novel genre. Following some backlash from the community, Valve’s Erik Johnson revealed in an official blog post that it has now been decided to stop policing Steam content altogether, which means that everything will be allowed on the store except illegal or ‘straight up trolling’ content.

So we ended up going back to one of the principles in the forefront of our minds when we started Steam, and more recently as we worked on Steam Direct to open up the Store to many more developers: Valve shouldn’t be the ones deciding this. If you’re a player, we shouldn’t be choosing for you what content you can or can’t buy. If you’re a developer, we shouldn’t be choosing what content you’re allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable.